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JCS Editor • December 20, 2024Conference Recap
American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, 2024
The American Academy of Religion held its 2024 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, November 23-26. The Contemplative Studies unit sponsored or co-sponsored three panels exploring contemplative practices, experiences, and traditions. Topics ranged from Confucian contemplations for college students, to… -
JCS Editor • March 28, 2024Revisit the Generative Contemplation Symposium 2023
In April 2023, the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia hosted its first Generative Contemplation Symposium in Charlottesville, Virginia. This gathering convened experts in Contemplative Studies – scholars, philosophers, cognitive neuroscientists, artists, and Buddhist practitioners – to present… -
JCS Editor • December 7, 2023Conference Recap
American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, 2023
The American Academy of Religion hosted its 2023 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, November 18-21. Among the hundreds of panels and roundtable discussions were notable explorations of contemplative practice among scholars of religion, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and art history…. -
JCS Editor • October 12, 2023Generative Contemplation Symposium 2023 Video Proceedings
Self-Emergent Visions
The Generative Contemplation Symposium was hosted by the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia in April 2023. The following is the video proceedings along with searchable transcripts of Session IV: Self-Emergent Visions which focused on the deliberate elicitation… -
JCS Editor • October 5, 2023Generative Contemplation Symposium 2023 Video Proceedings
Dreams and Illusions
The Generative Contemplation Symposium was hosted by the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia in April 2023. The following is the video proceedings along with searchable transcripts of Session III: Dream and Illusion Practices which focused on the… -
JCS Editor • September 28, 2023Generative Contemplation Symposium 2023 Video Proceedings
Nonduality
The Generative Contemplation Symposium was hosted by the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia in April 2023. The following is the video proceedings along with searchable transcripts of Session II: Nondual Awareness Practices which focused on the subject-object… -
JCS Editor • September 21, 2023Generative Contemplation Symposium 2023 Video Proceedings
Attention
The Generative Contemplation Symposium was hosted by the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia in April 2023. The following is the video proceedings along with searchable transcripts of Session I: Cognitive Effort and Control Practices which focused on… -
JCS Editor • May 10, 2023CONFERENCE RECAP
Generative Contemplation Symposium at University of Virginia, April 2023
The Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC) at the University of Virginia (UVA) hosted its first Generative Contemplation Symposium in Charlottesville, Virginia from April 20-21, 2023. This gathering convened religious studies scholars, philosophers, cognitive neuroscientists, artists, and Buddhist practitioners to present their… -
JCS Editor • April 3, 2023Vajrayana Buddhism and Science Workshop Video Proceedings
Over several days in March and early April 2021, Maria Kozhevnikov at the National University of Singapore convened a private online workshop, Bridging Esoteric Vajrayana Buddhism Practices with Science to Enhance Human Cognition. We are delighted to make the transcribed video…
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Jazlee Crowley, Brenna Rose Prevelige, and Dee Denver • March 20, 2025The Bodhi Trees of Kaua‘i
Piloting a Transdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Impacts of an Introduced Sacred Species
Transdisciplinarity has emerged as a focal interest in academia over recent years and is conceptualized and applied in many ways. Transdisciplinary approaches aim to dissolve the traditional silos of academic fields, deeply integrating disciplines from the outset of a project…. -
JCS Editor • March 13, 2025Special Issue Article
Riven: A Mysticism of Place in Times of Grief
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • March 6, 2025Special Issue Article
Contemplative Life amidst Mass Extinction: Catholic Revisions of Spirituality, Law, and Multispecies Justice
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • February 27, 2025Contemplation + The Body
An Interview With Donata Schoeller
Donata Schoeller is the co-founder and academic director of the European Erasmus training program Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding (TECTU), and the principal investigator and conceptual director of the international research project “Freedom to make sense: embodied, experiential and mindful… -
Brenna Rose Prevelige, Jazlee Crowley, Dana K. Howe, and Dee Denver • February 13, 2025Mushrooms in Nepal
Piloting Transdisciplinary Research at the Intersections of Mycology and Buddhist Philosophy
Transdisciplinarity has emerged as a focal interest in academia over recent years and is conceptualized and applied in many ways. Transdisciplinary approaches aim to dissolve the traditional silos of academic fields, deeply integrating disciplines from the outset of a project…. -
JCS Editor • February 7, 2025Special Issue Article
Supreme Patriarch Suk Kai Thuean’s Method of Visualizing the Elements
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is…